TY - JOUR
T1 - Shifting the Focus of Food Fraud
T2 - Confronting a Human Rights Challenge to Deliver Food Security
AU - Lindley, Jade
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - While food fraud is a national issue that must be dealt with by the relevant national authorities, due to the globalised nature of food chains, there may also be an important guiding crime prevention role for the international community that currently lacks. Food fraud undermines food security, and by extension denies human rights, issues that are squarely within the remit of the international legal domain. Food fraud is an organised crime conducted by sophisticated criminal networks who infiltrate global food supply chains by crossing international borders. Often, food fraud is intertwined with and enabled by other organised crimes, such as money laundering, corruption, and document fraud. While there remains an important role for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), among others, in ensuring food is safe for human consumption, presently, there is an absence of international criminal responses. A shift in perspective is needed to enable food fraud to be dealt with alongside other transnational organised crimes under relevant international law. The United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) encompasses activities that relate to, or enable food fraud, albeit no international law specifically mentions food fraud. This article argues that CTOC may be a suitable international legal framework through which appropriate criminal responses to food fraud may be underpinned.
AB - While food fraud is a national issue that must be dealt with by the relevant national authorities, due to the globalised nature of food chains, there may also be an important guiding crime prevention role for the international community that currently lacks. Food fraud undermines food security, and by extension denies human rights, issues that are squarely within the remit of the international legal domain. Food fraud is an organised crime conducted by sophisticated criminal networks who infiltrate global food supply chains by crossing international borders. Often, food fraud is intertwined with and enabled by other organised crimes, such as money laundering, corruption, and document fraud. While there remains an important role for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), among others, in ensuring food is safe for human consumption, presently, there is an absence of international criminal responses. A shift in perspective is needed to enable food fraud to be dealt with alongside other transnational organised crimes under relevant international law. The United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) encompasses activities that relate to, or enable food fraud, albeit no international law specifically mentions food fraud. This article argues that CTOC may be a suitable international legal framework through which appropriate criminal responses to food fraud may be underpinned.
KW - Food fraud
KW - International Law
KW - Human Rights
KW - food security
KW - transnational crime
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 117
EP - 123
JO - Perth International Law Journal
JF - Perth International Law Journal
SN - 2208-8350
ER -